Dragon Prince season 3

My kids continue to enjoy this show but for me the relative proportions of awesome and cringy have crossed into negative territory (plus an unfortunate share of nonsensical). There's so much potential and they're trying so hard but the dialogue was clunky and the pacing was weird and... meh.

Gideon the Ninth

I feel like I've seen a lot of recs for Gideon the Ninth along the lines of "omg it's great and I can't say anything about it" and indeed I read it without knowing anything about it other than "lesbian necromancers in space" and thought that was a great reading experience, so you could stop reading this before I even get to the part where I start comparing it to other books and go have a similar experience. I will throw out the fact that I bumped it way up my priority list when a friend told me that Tamsyn Muir is also a fanfic author she had particularly liked (in a fandom I don't myself read). Other than the fic link, it's like the Goth offspring of Hunger Games, The Westing Game, and a country house mystery like And Then There Were None; might also appeal to people who wanted Nix's Confusion of Princes to be better than it was (I have an unfinished alternate ending of that somewhere), and, let's see, I think I'd also like to recommend it to fans of the Machineries of Empire series. In terms of specifics, the setting/worldbuilding/atmosphere are really well done; Muir's doing some very clever combining of different aesthetics. And the writing is well done in other ways; there are some great lines and character beats, and once it gets going it's hard to put down. I'll definitely read the next one.

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